Now that the days are defined, we shall speak of how the solar calendar reckons its months and year. As has been previously noted, the sun is observed to travel along the ecliptic. The ecliptic is now divided into twelve parts called rāshi-s, starting from the point of Meshādi defined above and moving eastwards. They are: Mesha Vrishabha Mithuna Kataka Simha Kanyā Tulā Vrishchika Dhanus Makara Kumbha Mīna ...

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Hindu calendar, Hindu calendar - Basic structure, Hindu calendar - Day, Hindu calendar - Tithi, Hindu calendar - Vaasara, Hindu calendar - Nakshatra, Hindu calendar - Yoga, Hindu calendar - Karana, Hindu calendar - Month and year of the solar calendar, Hindu calendar - Months of the lunisolar calendar, Hindu calendar - Naming lunar months, Hindu calendar - Religious observances in case of extra and lost months, Hindu calendar - Year of the lunisolar calendar, Hindu calendar - Another kind of lunisolar calendar, Hindu calendar - Correspondence of the lunisolar calendar to the solar calendar, Hindu calendar - Year numbering, Hindu calendar - Year names, Hindu calendar - Eras, Hindu calendar - History

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When a new moon occurs before sunrise on a day, that day is said to be the first day of the lunar month. So it is evident that the end of the lunar month will coincide with a new moon. A lunar month has 29 or 30 days (according to the movement of the moon). The tithi at sunrise of a day is the only label of the day. There is no running day number from the first day to the last day of the month. This has some unique results, as explained below: Sometimes two successive days have the same tithi. In such a case, the ...

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Hindu calendar, Hindu calendar - Basic structure, Hindu calendar - Day, Hindu calendar - Tithi, Hindu calendar - Vaasara, Hindu calendar - Nakshatra, Hindu calendar - Yoga, Hindu calendar - Karana, Hindu calendar - Month and year of the solar calendar, Hindu calendar - Months of the lunisolar calendar, Hindu calendar - Naming lunar months, Hindu calendar - Religious observances in case of extra and lost months, Hindu calendar - Year of the lunisolar calendar, Hindu calendar - Another kind of lunisolar calendar, Hindu calendar - Correspondence of the lunisolar calendar to the solar calendar, Hindu calendar - Year numbering, Hindu calendar - Year names, Hindu calendar - Eras, Hindu calendar - History

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The Hindu calendar is of two types: the solar calendar or the saura māna the lunisolar calendar or the chāndra māna Both are described in this article. Hindu calendar - Basic structure. The structure of the Hindu calendar is of course composed of days making months making years. The system of describing days is the same in both the solar and lunisolar calendars. The system of describing months and hence years is what distinguishes the solar and lunisolar ...

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• Hindu calendar - Basic structure
• Hindu calendar - Day
• Hindu calendar - Tithi
• Hindu calendar - Vaasara
• Hindu calendar - Nakshatra
• Hindu calendar - Yoga
• Hindu calendar - Karana
• Hindu calendar - Month and year of the solar calendar
• Hindu calendar - Months of the lunisolar calendar
• Hindu calendar - Naming lunar months
• Hindu calendar - Religious observances in case of extra and lost months
• Hindu calendar - Year of the lunisolar calendar
• Hindu calendar - Another kind of lunisolar calendar
• Hindu calendar - Correspondence of the lunisolar calendar to the solar calendar
• Hindu calendar - Year numbering
• Hindu calendar - Year names
• Hindu calendar - Eras
• Hindu calendar - History

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The Buddhist calendar is used on mainland southeast Asia in the countries of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar (formerly Burma) in several related forms. It is a lunisolar calendar having months that are alternately 29 and 30 days, with an intercalated day and a 30-day month added at regular intervals. All of its forms are based on the original third century Surya Siddhanta, not its modern fo ...

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• Buddhist calendar - External link

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A calendar is a system for naming periods of time, typically days. These names are known as calendar dates. The dates may be based on the perceived motion of astronomical objects. A calendar is also a physical device (often paper) that illustrates the system (for example, a desktop calendar) — this is the most common usage of the word. As a subset, 'calendar' is also used to denote a list of particular set of planned events (for example, court calendar). Calendar - Calendar systems. Including:

• Calendar - Calendar systems
• Calendar - Solar calendars
• Calendar - Lunar calendars
• Calendar - Fiscal calendars
• Calendar - Calendar subdivisions
• Calendar - Other calendar types
• Calendar - Complete and incomplete calendars
• Calendar - Pragmatic theoretical and mixed calendars
• Calendar - Uses
• Calendar - Currently used calendars
• Calendar - Sources

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A lunar calendar is a calendar whose date indicates the moon phase. This is normally done by having a month which corresponds to a lunation so that the day of month indicates the moon phase. If a calendar tracks the seasons, it is also a lunisolar calendar. Lunar calendar - Examples. Most lunar calendars are also lunisolar, such as the Hebrew, Chinese and Hindu calendar, and most calendar systems used in antiquity. The reason for this is that a year is not evenly divisible by an exact number of lunat ...

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• Lunar calendar - Examples
• Lunar calendar - Determining the start of the month

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According to the Gregorian calendar, the calendar year begins on January 1 and ends on December 31. Other alignments of the 12-month period can be used for purposes of accounting (see fiscal year). Generally speaking, a calendar year begins on the New Year's day of the given calendar system and ends on the day before the following New Year's day. See also. Calendar Year Seasonal year Fiscal year Category: Units of ...

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The Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar incorporating elements of a lunar calendar with those of a solar calendar. In China today, the Gregorian Calendar is used for most day to day activities, but the Chinese calendar is still used for marking traditional holidays such as Chinese New Year (Spring Festival), Duan Wu festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, and in astrology, such as choosing the most auspicious date for a wedding or the opening of a building. Because each month follows one cycle of the moon, it is also used to determ ...

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• Chinese calendar - History
• Chinese calendar - Legendary beginnings
• Chinese calendar - Early History
• Chinese calendar - The Taichuli calendar
• Chinese calendar - The True Sun and Moon
• Chinese calendar - The Gregorian Reform and the 1929 time change
• Chinese calendar - Calendar Rules
• Chinese calendar - Year Markings
• Chinese calendar - Regnal Years
• Chinese calendar - The Stem-Branch Cycle
• Chinese calendar - Solar Year versus Lunar Year
• Chinese calendar - Hours of the Day
• Chinese calendar - The Chinese Zodiac
• Chinese calendar - Solar term
• Chinese calendar - Holidays
• Chinese calendar - Purpose of the Intercalary Months
• Chinese calendar - The relevance of the calendar today
• Chinese calendar - Practical uses
• Chinese calendar - Cultural issues

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The Bangla calendar also known as Bangabda in the Bengali language, is the traditional calendar used in Bangladesh and Bangla (Bengali)-speaking regions of India. The calendar is based on the solar year. New Year's Day falls between 13 April and 15 April. Bangla calendar - History. Under the Mughals, agricultural taxes were collected according to the Hijri calendar. However, as the Hijri calendar is a lunar calendar, the agricultural year did not coincide with the fiscal year. Therefore, farmers were ...

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• Bangla calendar - History
• Bangla calendar - Months
• Bangla calendar - Organization
• Bangla calendar - Beginning of day
• Bangla calendar - Rule of leap year

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The month is a unit of time, used with calendars, which is approximately as long as some natural period related to the motion of the Moon. The traditional concept arose with the cycle of moon phases; such months (lunations) are synodic months and last ~29.53 days. From excavated tally sticks, researchers have deduced that people counted days in relation to the Moon's phases as early as the Paleolithic age. Synodic months are still the basis of many calendars. Month - Astronomical background. The moti ...

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• Month - Astronomical background
• Month - Sidereal month
• Month - Tropical month
• Month - Anomalistic month
• Month - Draconic month
• Month - Synodic month
• Month - Month lengths
• Month - Calendrical consequences
• Month - Months in various calendars
• Month - Julian and Gregorian calendars
• Month - French Republican calendar
• Month - Islamic calendar
• Month - Hebrew Calendar
• Month - Hindu Calendar
• Month - Iranian/Persian calendar
• Month - Icelandic/Old Norse calendar
• Month - Notes

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The Malayalam calendar is a sidereal solar calendar used in the South Indian state of Kerala. It has twelve months: Chingam. "Onam", the most important festival of Kerala, is celebrated during this month. This comes during August or September of Gregorian Calendar. Kanni Thulam Vrischikam. The famous "Sabarimala" temple in Kerala is opened for devotees on the first day of this month for a period of two months. This period is called "Mandalakkaalam" DhanuIncluding:

• Malayalam calendar - External link

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The Hebrew calendar (Hebrew: הלוח העברי) or Jewish calendar is the annual calendar used in Judaism. It determines the dates of the Jewish holidays, the appropriate Torah portions for public reading, Yahrzeits (the date to commemorate the death of a relative), and the specific daily Psalms which some customarily read. Two major forms of the calendar have been used: an observational form used prior to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70, and based on witnesses observing ...

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• Hebrew calendar - History
• Hebrew calendar - Biblical period
• Hebrew calendar - Babylonian exile
• Hebrew calendar - Second Temple era
• Hebrew calendar - Roman Era
• Hebrew calendar - Alexandrian Jewish calendar
• Hebrew calendar - Transition period
• Hebrew calendar - When does the year begin?
• Hebrew calendar - Modern calendar
• Hebrew calendar - Epoch
• Hebrew calendar - Measurement of the month
• Hebrew calendar - Pattern of calendar years
• Hebrew calendar - Measurement of hours
• Hebrew calendar - Measurement of lunar conjunctions/molads
• Hebrew calendar - Metonic cycle
• Hebrew calendar - Special holiday rules
• Hebrew calendar - Karaite interpretation
• Hebrew calendar - Accuracy

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The Gregorian calendar is the calendar that is used nearly everywhere in the world. A modification of the Julian calendar, it was first proposed by the Neapolitan doctor Aloysius Lilius, and was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, for whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 (Note: The papal bull Inter gravissimas was signed in the year 1581 for unknown reasons, but printed on 1 March 1582. Although the use of the date 1581 is often attributed to the supposed adoption by the papacy of a reckoning by which the year began on 25 March, other contemporaneous papal bulls have years that do not agree with March years, let alo ...

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• Gregorian calendar - History
• Gregorian calendar - Invention
• Gregorian calendar - Beginning of the year
• Gregorian calendar - Adoption outside of Roman Catholic nations
• Gregorian calendar - Proleptic Gregorian calendar
• Gregorian calendar - Confusion with British vs. American usage
• Gregorian calendar - Difference between Gregorian and Julian calendar dates
• Gregorian calendar - Months of the year
• Gregorian calendar - Accuracy
• Gregorian calendar - Calendar seasonal error
• Gregorian calendar - Numerical facts
• Gregorian calendar - Number of leap years starting on a given day of the week
• Gregorian calendar - Days of the week
• Gregorian calendar - Reference

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The Coptic calendar, also called the Alexandrian Calendar, is used by the Coptic Orthodox Church. It is based on the Ancient Egyptian calendar. To avoid the calendar creep of the latter, a reform of the Ancient Egyptian calendar was introduced at the time of Ptolemy III (Decree of Canopus, in 238 BC) which consisted in the intercalation of a 6th epagomenal day every fourth year. However, this reform was opposed by the Egyptian priests, and the idea was not adopted until 25 BC, when the Roman Emperor Augustus formally reformed t ...

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• Coptic calendar - The Coptic year
• Coptic calendar - The date of Christmas
• Coptic calendar - The date of Easter
• Coptic calendar - Coptic months

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The Buddhist calendar is used on mainland southeast Asia in the countries of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar (formerly Burma) in several related forms. It is a lunisolar calendar having months that are alternately 29 and 30 days, with an intercalated day and a 30-day month added at regular intervals. All of its forms are based on the original third century Surya Siddhanta, not its modern fo ...

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• Buddhist calendar - External link

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Various reforms to the Gregorian calendar currently used by most of the world have been proposed. Reformers cite several problems with the Gregorian calendar: It is not perpetual. Each year starts on a different day of the week, and calendars expire every year. Months are not equal in length, requiring the mnemonic rhyme, “Thirty days hath September…” to remember which month is 28, 29, 30, or 31 days long. It is difficult to determine the weekday of any given day of the year. The year's fo ...

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• Calendar reform - Perpetual calendars
• Calendar reform - 13-month calendar proposals
• Calendar reform - Specific proposals

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The Darian Calendar is a system of time-keeping designed to serve the needs of any possible future human settlers on the planet Mars. It was created by aerospace engineer and political scientist Thomas Gangale in 1985 and named by him after his son Darius. Darian calendar - Year Length and Intercalation. The basic time periods from which the calendar is constructed are the Martian solar day (sometimes called a sol) and the Martian vernal equinox year, which is slightly different from the tropical year. The ...

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• Darian calendar - Year Length and Intercalation
• Darian calendar - Calendar layout
• Darian calendar - Start of Year
• Darian calendar - Disputed points
• Darian calendar - Martiana Calendar
• Darian calendar - Other Darian Calendars

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The Attic calendar is the calendar that was in use in ancient Attica, the ancestral territory of the Athenian polis. This article focuses on the 5th and 4th centuries BC, the classical period that produced some of the most significant works of ancient Greek literature. Because of the relative wealth of evidence from Athens, of all the Hellenic calendars it is the best understood. Viewed from the standpoint of the modern Gregorian calendar, this ancient system has many peculiar features. This is a part of its appeal: as a cultural artif ...

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• Attic calendar - Local focus of the system
• Attic calendar - More than one calendar
• Attic calendar - Festival calendar
• Attic calendar - List of months
• Attic calendar - Lunisolar calendar
• Attic calendar - Names of the months
• Attic calendar - Days of the month
• Attic calendar - State calendar
• Attic calendar - Manipulation of the calendar
• Attic calendar - Dating long range events
• Attic calendar - Sidereal calendar

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The Gaulish Coligny Calendar was found in Coligny, Ain, France (46°23′N 5°21′E) near Lyons in 1897, along with the head of a bronze statue of a youthful male figure. It is a lunisolar calendar. It was engraved on a bronze tablet, preserved in 73 fragments, that originally was 1.48 m wide and 0.9 m high (Lambert p.111). Based on the style of lettering and the accompanying objects, it probably dates to the end of the 2nd century (Lambert p.111). It is written in Latin inscriptional capitals, and is in the Gaulish language (Duval & Pinault). The restored tablet contains sixteen vertic ...

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• Coligny calendar - System
• Coligny calendar - Gaulish calendar in historical sources
• Coligny calendar - Pliny the Elder
• Coligny calendar - Julius Caesar
• Coligny calendar - Months
• Coligny calendar - Bibliography

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